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Often also called a replicated workers or worker-crew model, [1] a thread pool maintains multiple threads waiting for tasks to be allocated for concurrent execution by the supervising program. By maintaining a pool of threads, the model increases performance and avoids latency in execution due to frequent creation and destruction of threads for ...
Xkill is a utility program distributed with the X Window System that instructs the X server to forcefully terminate its connection to a client, thus "killing" the client. [1] When run with no command-line arguments , the program displays a special cursor (usually a crosshair or a skull and crossbones ) and displays a message such as
A bypass switch (or bypass TAP) is a hardware device that provides a fail-safe access port for an in-line active security appliance such as an intrusion prevention system (IPS), next generation firewall (NGFW), etc. Active, in-line security appliances are single points of failure in live computer networks because if the appliance loses power, experiences a software failure, or is taken off ...
The kill command is a wrapper around the kill() system call, which sends signals to processes or process groups on the system, referenced by their numeric process IDs (PIDs) or process group IDs (PGIDs).
An emergency switch in Japan. On railways, [1] an emergency stop is a full application of the brakes in order to bring a train to a stop as quickly as possible. [2] This occurs either by a manual emergency stop activation, such as a button being pushed on the train to start the emergency stop, or on some trains automatically, when the train has passed a red signal or the driver has failed to ...
Interest in dead man's controls increased with the introduction of electric trams (streetcars in North America) and especially electrified rapid transit trains. The first widespread use came with the introduction of the mass-produced Birney One-Man Safety (tram) Car, though dead-man equipment was fairly rare on US streetcars until the successful PCC streetcar, which had a left-foot-operated ...
1 Kill Shakespeare Volume 1: A Sea of Troubles: ISBN 1-6001-0781-8: November 9, 2010 Kill Shakespeare #1–6 2 Kill Shakespeare Volume 2: The Blast of War: ISBN 1-6137-7025-1: November 22, 2011 Kill Shakespeare #6–12 3 Kill Shakespeare Volume 3: The Tide of Blood: ISBN 1-6137-7732-9: October 1, 2013 Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood #1–5 4